Alarm Data Interface

Fire and EMS Agencies

Dispatch Centers

Total control of printing and firefighter notifications
Most efficient use of all received data from your dispatch center's CAD system
Supplements existing primary voice paging system so dispatches get through to emergency responders. A great asset to agencies with "spotty" radio coverage. Can also be used to help reduce your fire department's ISO rating by using commercial cellular and paging providers as a secondary means of notification.
Can automate a portion of the NFIRS reporting system

Transparent to CAD system - No software, hardware or procedural changes need to be made at the dispatch center
Minimizes Fire/EMS agency reliance on Dispatch Center personnel for technical support
Supplements existing primary voice paging system so dispatches get through to emergency responders
Firefighter text notifications are originated at and managed by each individual fire department/station. There is no reliance on dispatch center personnel for this.

County	CAD Vendor	Status	Notes
Broome, NY	New World Systems AS400 I-Series	Available	ADI will remotely poll a dedicated POP3 E-mail account for new incidents.
Chester, PA	Northrop Grumman/PRC	Available	Using 9600 Baud dial-up modems for communication. We have compatible modems available.
Cortland, NY	New World Systems MSP	Available	ADI will remotely poll a dedicated POP3 E-mail account for new incidents.
Genesee, NY	New World Systems MSP	Unavailable
Livingston, NY	New World Systems AS400 I-Series	Available	ADI polls a POP3 account to retrieve data. Support for the dial-up modem version will expire 12/31/08.
Madison, NY	Positron	Available	Dispatches are sent from the 911 Center via TCP/IP. Close Reports are sent from the CAD system as a Fax.
Montgomery, PA	Intergraph	Available	Using radio receivers for data communications. Radio interface cables are available from us. No modems are required. Contact us for details.
Nassau, NY	FIRECOM	Available	ADI remotely polls the County's FIRECOM SQL server for dispatch information.
Onondaga, NY	Intergraph	Available	The County is currently sending data out to the fire stations via IP (Internet). Dial-up modem data broadcasting to the fire stations has been implemented. Contact us for current modem requirements.
Wayne, NY	LogiSYS	Available	Using 9600 Baud dial-up modems for communication. We have compatible modems available.
Wicomico, MD	Sunguard OSSI	Available	Dispatches are sent from the 911 Center via TCP/IP.

	Capture all received CAD data on your computer's screen.>

	Record all received CAD data to a log file on your computer's hard drive viewable by month.

	Store all received incidents in a formatted database.

	Search log files for any phrase by date range.

	Select which types of data transmissions automatically go to your printers: - Condensed dispatch - Initial dispatch (verbatim) - Supplemental - Alarm close (CAD specific) - Available On Radio/Available In Quarters with or without mutual aid (CAD specific) - Administrative Message - Close Summary (CAD specific)

	Select which data automatically gets printed out on a dispatch. If you don't need all the information that CAD sends you initially, then tell ADI to only print the fields you want. This is referred to as a "Condensed Dispatch".

	Also, ADI is truly "Rip and Run" compliant. This means that ADI can be configured to print as many dispatch printouts as you want. You can even tell it to always print one copy of the dispatch for each of your units assigned to the response and you can designate which assigned units get a printout and which don't. For example, an EMS call may have only one unit assigned, hence one printout; a structure fire may have six of your units assigned and ADI will print one copy of the dispatch for each of the six assigned units. Maybe you only want a printout for certain assigned units - just configure it and forget it. ADI is very flexible. Assigned units are set up in your Box Alarms (Response Plans) at the dispatch center. ADI will automatically interpret this information sent to you from the dispatch center at the time of dispatch.

	Print to multiple station printers. All transmission types listed above can be sent to each printer that you set up through ADI. Additionally, dispatch data can be directed to individual printers by assigned vehicle IDs.
	Receive incoming data via dial-up modem, radio, database polling, POP3 or TCP/IP (not all dispatch centers can transmit in all formats).

	Prevent users from changing settings without a proper password.

	Easily understand and interact with ADI. ADI is "firefighter friendly" and requires very little, if any, user interaction after the initial setup. ADI is predominantly menu controlled and is not littered with confusing and unneeded controls.

	ModemCheck will poll your dial-up CAD modem at a user-defined interval and notify you of a problem with the modem if it senses trouble. Users can also be notified by the system advising of a modem failure. ADI can also try to self correct the modem problem and then notify you if it is successful.
	Capable of being installed as a Windows Service on any Windows 2000 or Windows XP PC. This allows ADI to run even while nobody is logged in to Windows. Runs as a standard application on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
	ADI can re-transmit a Dispatch and Alarm Close to any user in the form of a SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) message. All you need is an "always on" connection to the Internet (broadband, DSL, etc.) at your fire station. This feature is beneficial to department members as well as to members of specialty teams (technical rescue, dive, hazmat, etc.) in other mutual aid departments who may need to be notified. ADI's Notification feature may also be counted as your second means of notification to help reduce your ISO rating. Messages from ADI can be received on most messaging devices including cellular phones, PDA's, alpha pagers and PC's.>
	ADI stores all received incidents in an Incident Listing database. The database is displayed in a separate window that allows you to quickly see the status of an incident (open or closed) as well as letting you view the complete incident with just a click of the mouse.
	One of ADI's newest feature is the Incident Data Sharing and Export option. Third-party software developers such as Saturn Software� can import data from ADI in to their incident reporting program. Optionally, ADI can export some crucial incident data fields to NFIRS software vendors such as FIREHOUSE Software�. Both of these features will allow your incident reports to be pre-filled with data from CAD.
	"Repeat Mode" allows a fire department with multiple stations to receive data from the dispatch center via dial-up or TCP/IP and then repeat it via TCP/IP to as many as nine satellite stations running ADI. This allows the dial-up phone lines at the satellite stations to be eliminated as well as solving the problem of all stations not being able to receive all department alarms due to CAD system limitations.
	ADI is designed to interface with Northrop Grumman/PRC, New World Systems' Aegis, Intergraph, Positron, LogiSYS and XML data formats. Other CAD system formats can be added relatively quickly.
	Express Printing allows you to receive a printout of your dispatch before ADI's modem disconnects with the dispatch center. Great when your staff is already in-house when the dispatch comes in.
	Remote Log Viewer (included at no charge when you purchase ADI) will allow your staff to remotely view ADI's Incident Listing from another location on your network.
	ADI will also interface to FSID. When a dispatch is received, FSID will suspend its normal cycling and freeze some crucial dispatch information on the computer's screen in large, easy to read characters and at the same time will speak some of the key incident data. Also, if you install our BetaBrite / Alpha Electronic Messaging Signs, FSID will display some key dispatch data on each sign.

ADI operates by first capturing pre-formatted ASCII textual data* or XML data from an authorized sender such as a dispatch center. ADI is programmed to recognize the format that your dispatch center's CAD system outputs. Data can be transmitted to ADI by standard dial-up modems, leased line modems, radio or via TCP/IP connections as well as some server polling methods. After ADI receives the transmitted data, it then scans, evaluates and formats the text which is then outputted to printers, its own database, e-mail, cellular telephones, fire station LED display boards, other ADI clients, etc.

*CAD systems that fax text or images of text are not compatible with ADI because they are sending your incident data as an image.